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They are grasping at straws now... trying to make a buck but it didn't work4k is alright, nothing crazy either because the leap from analog to digital 1080p was huge... and your eyes simply adjust to 1080p no problem

Perhaps. However, my finding is that 3D and curved work really well *together*. The problem is, manufacturers have been selling these features separately.

Auto-stereoscopic 3D with curved 8K TV at a high frame rate would be an amazingly immersive experience. But nobody wants to shell out that kind of money.

So instead, manufacturers half-ass it. Like giving us the crust of a pizza, the cheese, or the pepperoni, but almost never all three at once.

Curved and 3D complement each other quite well, I think. But without 3D, curved is of limited benefit. And without curved immersion, 3D never truly looks as real as it should. Combined, they work. Separately... they don't. That's my point.

I realize in the era of Obamanomics, most would rather have a cheap 720p flatscreen they can haul around with them from the folks' house to grandma's, or what-not. Or just watch Netflix from the Kindle, and skip all the hassle.

The other reason for that is because, since 3D and curved were marketed separately and as competing rather than complementing features, the benefit of curves to fix the problem with most autostereoscopic displays was not taken advantage of.

As a consequence, viewers had a very limited range of angles from which to view 3D and actually see the benefit.

Therefore, manufacturers tried to get by selling the battery-powered glasses method, rather than the autostereoscopic method. Nobody wanted to wear those glasses. Nobody. And by requiring them, the manufacturers shot themselves in the foot - dooming 3D to the status of 2011-2012 time period curiosity.

So now they are giving us curved - mostly without 3D, and certainly without autostereoscopy. But like I said, without 3D, there is little point to curved. New tech, defeated by marketing failures.

It's almost as tragic to behold as how Playdom shot itself in the foot, leading to MAA being taken offline.